My Lord,
Government House
Hong Kong, April 27. 1845.–
I have the honour to request that Your Lordship will be so good as to allow Ensign Robert Lloyd of this 55th Regiment to be employed as an assistant to Captain Clement Edwards in the Survey of the northern side of this Island.
Should your Lordship be able to spare Ensign Lloyd from his military Duties, I further have to beg that he may be directed to place himself under Captain Edwards's orders from the 14. Proximo,
(signed) Henry Pottinger
The Lord Stanley K. C. B. &c. &c.